Discord banned accounts related to a service that was scraping and selling millions of user's messages.Getty ImagesDiscord banned accounts tied to Spy.Pet, a website known for mining and selling millions of users' messages.Spy.Pet used bots to scrape data from 14,000 servers, affecting nearly 620 million Discord users.Discord says it is considering legal action against the cite.Discord banned several accounts linked to a website that was scraping and selling millions of users messages.404 Media first reported on Spy.Pet, a website that was mining millions of Discord user's messages and selling access to the information for anyone willing to pay.Discord is a a highly popular group-chatting app.

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  • Discord bans accounts that sold messages from up to 620m users
    Discord has banned an unknown number of accounts that were using bots to scrape messages from up to 620 million users ...
    04/29/2024 - 9:56 pm | View Link
  • After 620m users had their messages scraped and sold, Discord responds
    The report, by 404 Media, claimed that over 4bn public messages - including voice data - of up to 620 million users had ... Now, Discord has said it has banned the accounts responsible and was ...
    04/28/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
  • Discord banned accounts related to a site that sold messages from more than 620 million users
    Discord banned several accounts linked to Spy.Pet, a site that was selling millions of user's messages scraped from 14,000 Discord servers.
    04/27/2024 - 9:51 am | View Link
  • Message-scraping, user-tracking service Spy Pet shut down by Discord
    Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million ... and that it had banned accounts affiliated with ...
    04/26/2024 - 12:06 am | View Link
  • Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data
    Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million ... accounts connected to that repository have been banned ...
    04/25/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
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